top 10 hacker news stories for 2012-06-05

Paul Graham's Letter to YC Companies

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4067297

14 years ago

645 upvotes – 185 comments

Kids should be building rockets and robots, not taking standardized tests

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/06/maker_faire_and_science_education_american_kids_should_be_building_rockets_and_robots_not_taking_standardized_tests_.html

14 years ago

526 upvotes – 196 comments

Salt, We Misjudged You

http://nytimes.com/2012/06/03/opinion/sunday/we-only-think-we-know-the-truth-about-salt.html

14 years ago

314 upvotes – 158 comments

Loading half a billion rows into MySQL

http://derwiki.tumblr.com/post/24490758395/loading-half-a-billion-rows-into-mysql

14 years ago

295 upvotes – 99 comments

On{X}: The Coolest Thing to Happen to Android. Courtesy of… Microsoft Israel?

http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/05/onx/

14 years ago

252 upvotes – 99 comments

Gmail security warnings for suspected state-sponsored attacks

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2012/06/security-warnings-for-suspected-state.html

14 years ago

226 upvotes – 111 comments

Why Diablo 3 is less addictive than Diablo 2: a scientific explanation

http://www.alexc.me/a-scientific-explanation-why-diablo-3-is-less-addictive-than-diablo-2/417/

14 years ago

222 upvotes – 192 comments

The Tesla Gun

http://hackerfriendly.com/the-tesla-gun/

14 years ago

221 upvotes – 29 comments

Fred Wilson's response to "Paul Graham's Letter to YC Companies"

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/06/some-perspective.html

14 years ago

214 upvotes – 78 comments

The Critical Security Flaws that Resulted in Last Friday's Hack

http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-four-critical-security-flaws-that-resulte

14 years ago

189 upvotes – 48 comments
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